China's 2026 Spring Festival box office, including presales, topped 2 billion yuan (about 290 million U.S. dollars) by Wednesday afternoon, four days into the nine-day holiday, according to industry data.
A robotic lion dancer, a panda-shaped robot and three humanoid dancing robots took center stage at a Chinese New Year gala hosted by the United Nations Chinese Book Club at UN headquarters in New York on Thursday.
In recent years, Chinese festivals have been marked by cultural heritage galas, sparking growing interest among young people to engage in and promote the traditional arts.
As inbound tourism continues to recover, visiting China during the Spring Festival holiday has drawn growing interest from international travelers seeking seasonal cultural experiences.
The longest Spring Festival holiday in recent years — lasting nine days starting Sunday — has ignited people's passion for travel, with both domestic destinations and overseas locations attracting significant interest.
In the early 1980s, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Communist Party of China Zhengding County Committee in Hebei province, lived in an office that often felt damp. On sunny days, he would air out his bedding — a cotton-padded mattress patched together with scraps of old clothing.
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Thursday the discovery of a prehistoric rock shelter on Jabal Umm Arak in South Sinai province, dating back up to 10,000 years.
After finishing 12th out of 12 competitors in the women's 5,000m race at the Milan-Cortina Games on Thursday, Tai Zhien said she was confident of a better performance at next Olympics.
A pioneer in China's funds and wine, Chris Ruffle, founder of Heartland Capital, and owner of the Treaty Port Vineyard in China's Shandong province, was recognized for services to the wine industry in China.
Red lanterns swayed gently above the stone-paved lanes of Beijing's Longfusi commercial area, while the familiar aromas of pastries, pickles and freshly prepared snacks drifted through the winter air.
Beijing is looking to tap into the lucrative "set-jetting" trend that has been gaining traction around the world in recent years. Driven by the global success of big-budget blockbuster productions such as Game of Thrones and The White Lotus, tourists are flocking to take holidays at the real-life locations where their favorite TV shows and films are set.
China on Wednesday rejected recent remarks by a senior U.S. official accusing China of conducting nuclear explosive tests.
The 7th African Junior Wushu Kung Fu Championship opened Tuesday evening in Cairo, bringing together nearly 100 athletes, coaches, and officials from a dozen African countries alongside China's National Wushu Team.
Red lanterns swayed above Kotzia Square in central Athens on Wednesday as the rhythmic drums of a dragon dance drew thousands of Greek residents celebrating China's Spring Festival.
China hosted a Spring Festival reception at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) headquarters in London on Feb 10, celebrating the upcoming Year of the Horse with the permanent representatives and delegates from IMO member states.
An international Spring Festival gathering for overseas students was held in Beijing on Tuesday, offering young people from around the world an immersive experience of traditional Chinese culture and the historical legacy of the Beijing Central Axis.
On Little New Year, which fell on Tuesday this year in northern China, the Confucius Museum in Qufu, Shandong province, invited the public to embark on a Chinese New Year journey with a combination of cultural exhibits and a festive market.
As the country's biggest holiday approaches, the Chinese New Year — especially this year's extended nine-day break — has become a critical period for consumption, offering a vital window for retailers to bolster their performance.
For generations of Chinese families, "nian gao" has been the most tangible festive expression of hope Over time, as the word gao(cake) came to echo gao(high), the rice cake took on its enduring association with progress and aspiration.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited primary-level officials and residents in Beijing during a two-day inspection tour from Monday to Tuesday, extending Spring Festival greetings to Chinese people at home and abroad ahead of the festival.
MaltaPost on Monday unveiled a commemorative stamp celebrating the Chinese Lunar Year of the Horse at a ceremony held in the capital, Valletta. The release marks the third consecutive year that Malta has issued stamps themed around the Chinese zodiac.
Shoes squeaking on the court, plastic balls popping as they hit rackets, the crowd cheering after a score — not the typical sound of international relations. Students from China and the United States were doing just that in Rockville, Maryland, on Saturday, for the inaugural US-China Youth Pickleball Friendship Tournament.
Fifty "Nihao! China" Year of the Horse-themed double-decker buses began operating across central London on Monday, adding a festive Chinese New Year touch to the city as part of the UK's "Happy Chinese New Year" celebrations.
The findings revealed that during the transfer and circulation of Jiangnan Springand other paintings, the original Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture, the Nanjing Museum, and the original Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Store violated cultural relics management regulations.
Chinese authorities have revealed an action plan to promote the inheritance and development of theatrical arts over the next three years, starting from 2026.
AI-generated "digital human" short dramas are gaining popularity in China, emerging as a new growth segment of the country's short-form video market as production costs fall and audiences become more receptive, industry observers said.
Adora Cruises on Sunday welcomed the one-millionth passenger aboard Adora Magic City, China's first domestically built large cruise ship, as the vessel departed from Shanghai with more than 4,000 passengers on a five-day, four-night cruise to Jeju and Busan in the Republic of Korea.
Skiers gliding through ancient forests by morning and soaking in steaming geothermal pools by night have become the new winter standard in Guizhou province.
In Lingchuan county, at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains in Shanxi province, children glide across snowy slopes under the guidance of an Austrian Olympic skiing champion — a scene that reflects how China's ice and snow tourism is expanding beyond its traditional strongholds in Northeast China and the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
The iconic "tea-green and cherry-red" landscape of Yongfu town in Zhangping, East China's Fujian province, reached its peak aesthetic over the weekend as the annual cherry blossom cultural tourism festival officially commenced.
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